Turn Your Phone into a Retro Game Console with Alibaba Cloud Serverless

My Experience Process

Step 1: Function Compute Intro – Hello World

First, enable Function Compute service as described in the documentation; the resources are free. Use your own Alibaba Cloud account; sub‑accounts will fail.

Create a new function in the console, run it and see the output “Hello, World!”.

Step 2: One‑Click Deploy Handheld Game Console

This step uses the Serverless Devs CLI, an open‑source component‑based Serverless development platform.

There are six operations: s init fc-nes-game Enter a project name, e.g., fc-nes-game.

Select default credentials and press Enter.

Result shows initialization completed.

cd fc-nes-game

s deploy

Result shows deployment completed; copy the custom_domain URL.

Open the URL on a mobile browser; if a QR code page appears, the deployment succeeded. Scan the QR code to play the handheld console.

All steps are done; the game console is ready.

Turn Your Phone into a Game Console

You can download NES‑format games and place them in src/roms, then edit line 91 of index.htm to add the game name and relative path.

The experience is smooth and the prize—a physical game console—is attractive. The activity runs from July 28 to August 10, delivering 200 consoles each workday. Complete the experience and claim your console at 10:00 AM daily.

Activity link: https://developer.aliyun.com/adc/series/activity/serverlessdevs